- I have configured this lab in GNS3 with router IOS “c3660-telcoentk9-mz.124-13b.bin”, you can use any other router with MPLS support. 1) Basic Interfaces Configuration and IP Addresses Following are the IP setting but notice that the interfaces that connect to the CE routers do not have this setting, since the traffic to the PE is pure IP.
- Hi guys, I am having a problem connecting a gns3 cloud to my local pc that has a public ip address. Basically i bought a plan for a dedicated server and the provider gave me a public ip address to use on my server. I know how to connect the gns3 cloud when it comes to private ip addressing (exampl.
Hello and welcome back to the GNS3 section. I take it you’ve just come from the how to install network devices article and you’re ready to learn more! In this article, we will be taking a look at how to add your real computer to GNS3.
Drag and drop one Router and Cloud into the GNS3 workspace. Click Right-Click / Configure to set up Cloud1. Step 14 In the Cloud1 configuration window, you need to select the Loopback network card you added in the Ethernet Interfaces section.
Why would we want to do that? Well… it allows us to use our computer’s full processing power in order to make managing certain devices easier. Most of the setups are done initially via CLI, however, some devices have had a lot of quality of life features added on their GUI like firewalls that make managing them over GUI a lot faster.
This means your actual computer will be able to communicate with the network devices in real-time as if you were physically connected to them with a cable, isn’t that amazing?
How do we add our real computer to GNS3?
Firstly I want you to go back into GNS3, we can quickly use the same project that we used when we imported a Cisco in the previous lecture, however you can start from scratch and import any device really.
Now kindly go back into GNS3, click on Edit at the top of the toolbar and select preferences, or alternatively press “Ctrl + Shift + P”
Now please navigate to VMware and select it and then click on the Advanced Local Settings.
You should see the Managed VMnet interfaces, what are these? Well, VMware which we installed earlier allows us to also create what we call Virtual Network adapters. Or simply a virtual NIC. That is running on our actual computer. You can leave the options inside as is as this will add two new Virtual NICs to your computer called vmnet2 and vmnet3. All that you need to do is press on Configure. If you ever find yourself wanting or needing more NICs then you can add them from here, however, a single NIC should be more than enough for labbing purposes.
Now I want you to go into your Network connections after GNS3 is done with creating the virtual NICs. You will notice that there are more interfaces now. I generally pick VMnet 2 to use and rename this connection just to VMnet2.
I also tend to give this NIC an IP address in a management range that I configure on all devices with the initial setup. This is generally a private IP in the 192.168.99.x/24 range, however, you can make this IP anything that you want to, just as long as it’s at least a /30 in size in order to plug into other pieces of equipment.
Now that we have a virtual NIC with an IP address configured we can go back into GNS3 and bring our machine into the topology. Go into the End-Devices node and drag and drop the “Cloud” into the topology.
Next, I would like you to right click on the Cloud and click on the configure button as we will need to specify which NIC we want to be active in GNS3.
We will now select the NIC that will be able to communicate with the virtual topology. Firstly clear out all the interfaces out of the cloud by selecting them all and clicking on Delete.
Once all the interfaces have been cleared out of list please tick the Show special Ethernet interfaces.
With the option ticked to Show special Ethernet interfaces click on the dropdown window and select the VMnet interface where you have assigned your IP address. I will use VMnet 2 as that is the interface I configured my static IP
Best pencil art lessons. NB: Please ensure you also click on Add to actually add the interface into the window. If you do not add it you will not be able to use the interface.
As we have added the VMnet interface we can simply hit Apply and OK then we are done! We are ready to connect our personal computer to the devices in the network landscape. Please use the connector node and connect your VMnet interface to your Cisco router on Gi0/0
If you have started your devices you should see the endpoints of both sides of the cables are green and that network communication can now take place. I have already assigned a management IP address to the interface of the Cisco router as 192.168.99.1/24, so the device is already reachable and can be managed from my own computer!
That’s a wrap
Gns3 Cloud Connect To Internet
We’ve covered how to add your real computer to GNS3. If you added any other device and gave it a management IP address you would be able to just move the cable from your computer on the topology to the other machine and you would be able to access the device over its management ports from your computer.
Gns3 Cloud Interface
This will come in handy when we start configuring things like FortiGate and Checkpoint firewalls where working over a GUI can ease certain configuration aspects. Deer sketch. I hope that this has been informative for you and that you have learned something new!